you're trying to work the solution on al-jazeera the e. president earlier one remains defiant over turkey's offensive in syria as a high level u.s. delegation makes its way to encourage with the goal of ending the conflicts. to. the as. i'm fully back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from my borders in doha also ahead time is running out for a break sit deal as politicians on both sides of the divide try to patch together an agreement it's. cool shouted down by opposition

politicians hong kong's chief executive kerry limeys forced to delay her on your policy speech and anger in south korea after its football world cup qualifier in pyongyang is paid to empty stands without live coverage. i am. thank you for joining as turkey's president won insists the military operation in syria will continue until his country's objectives have been achieved speaking to his party members a short while ago otoh on reiterated that he's not against this area and people but against what he calls a violent forces in the region his comments come as u.s. vice president mike pence along with a delegation make their way to ankara they'll be seeking an immediate cease fire in northeast syria as international condemnation of the turkish offensive grows. but. we haven't come to this point suddenly starting this operation after

a struggle against the steere organization this is been a 40 year history and also within syria has an 8 year history in the last 40 years tens of thousands of people have lost their lives and it's cost us hundreds of millions to our country our country under any circumstances always delivers its responsibilities as allies but despite this our allies are saying one thing to our face and doing another thing behind our back and this is undeniably clear now despite all this talk his attitude is always with peace and happiness. they speak to. on the turkish side of the border with syria charles ardai one says no power can stop the turkish offensive in syria until it reaches its goals how close or how far are they to achieving that goal what are the latest situation on the ground. will bear in mind that the sound behind me russell lane

was a focus point for the pope's described is the 1st stage of this military operation operation that's been going on for over a week now and there has been fierce fighting here throughout the morning a lot of artillery fire we believe as strikes we've heard jets. story and the fighting seems to be very close to the border as well it's not like it's a couple of kilometers away it's very close to the border fence which was which would suggest that the kurdish forces are very well dug in there according to the turkish military they say they've made some gains to the south west of here they also say they've made some gains west of the town of money which they took control of a few days ago we understand the situation in mumbai. everybody is concerned about potential flashpoint town for the west we understand that the syrian army very much in control of that town russian military police. patrolling the areas between the

town and we understand turkish forces approximately 15 kilometers away but as i say it seems as if the main focus of the fighting today has been here in the russell line. as you said a man a potential point. because of the price forces in the area what do we know. right now. syrian forces we understand located in a number of different towns all of which either sit on or behind the m 4 highway now the m 4 highway that vital supply route that effectively is around 30 kilometers from south of the border we know that the syrian regime. forces are in towns like. a place called tulla tommo which is about 30 kilometers from here and we understand that they are sitting there just protecting that area that area

that is either on the boundary or just outside of. this is that the so-called safety zone that the turkish government is trying to set up but of course there are serious concerns as to whether they could be flashpoints there between opposing forces we know that there are hundreds potentially thousands of free syrian army syrian fighters that have been brought into turkey to take part in this operation they are very much at the forefront of it we know that a lot of them situated around mum bases well because interestingly many of them being arabs are actually from that area itself and are very keen to get back they were pushed out of that area around one bush during the fight against deisel and indeed fighting we as the in recent years so you can imagine it's a very explosive situation here we understand that the russians are doing all they can in. speaking to the sides they say they've got the turks on board along with

the americans a great host. government the turks responding to that as well confirming that but yeah it's very interesting though certainly to say that this town rusling which has been the focus of attention since the beginning of this operation started is still very much contested. chance thank you very much for that update child stratford life forests in chainline pienaar on the turkey syria border and as childs mentioned there a lot of diplomacy going on the u.s. vice president expected in ankara we will be speaking to cinema very shortly about that in the meantime we want to take you to turkey's parliament where the foreign minister met let. briefing parliamentarians on the offensive in syria let's listen in. to the street on

a plot form in the last one and a half years we have spent a lot of effort and in the last. september. we have had some results and. the trilateral meeting we have had in ankara we opened the door for the free and just and free and fair elections in syria and hopefully the. we and also we agreed that there will be a constitutional committee for syria. and turkey as all the way so he is always going to continue its support for political solution for syria . and. $3038.00 of october we're going to have and some of us. but all these political solutions that we're looking for is not an alternative for our struggle against. terror we

always have to have the vision to fight against terror and it's all in its source with the f. rated shield and all the branch operation we have been fighting against p.k. k. and y. p.g. and we cleared the areas in those previous 3 operations from all the terrorists around the region we have neutralized of $4000.00. terrorists by fighting with them chest to chest all around the world fight against . all the other countries who are thinking that fighting with terrorists who are bombing places from air but we don't do it this way we are going step by step step by step even some centimeter by centimeter fighting against

terror without schedule civil civilian casualties the. international coalition and they're bombing from the air at least 1035 civilians died in their operations our allies. were given the responsibility to fight through it to other terror organizations but we do not discriminate between terror organizations and we don't agree to work with a terror organization as contractors for this joint other terror organizations we always have the ethics and the strategy of fighting with fairness. all the terror terror threats to our borders from diet and why p.j. we're using our own resources in our fight.

all the departments in our country. in our state the state departments have put a lot of effort and hopefully and also that the areas that we have cleared from the terrorist. surveillance syrians went back to those areas the terrorist threat that we are fighting against from diet. but this terror organizations with the support of our allies are getting stronger and stronger and they are attempting to create a terrorist state but today some countries and. some countries are very uncomfortable with this operation we know the reason for this and the reason for this is because we we ruined the game because they were trying to build a terrorist state in this area this is very clear and if you look at the countries

who give the strongest reaction is france they want to create a terror state in this region and they are having very serious work in these areas and the reason why they're attacking us so ferociously is because we've ruined their game and said this is their disappointments and on the last 2 years easton's. the eastern is an iraq and from that area they have been a lot of attacks. as a nation the tunnels why p.g. . and p. why the terror terror tunnels and at the eastern side of the freighters there were camps that were training these terrorists. but we we have prevented

a lot of of these terror attacks in africa in general bliss they have killed a lot of civilians and they they displace these civilians and why p.g. why p.g. and. never has a chance to make cooperation with as well and with some doubt. some die a shoot criminals who were actually moved away were removed with buses and why p.g. terrorists were helping them this is a this is within our information that's why p g m p k k gave diet members to make operations to make terror attacks in our country.

you know some countries are using. my picture as representatives in this region but the boy by p g m p k k actually releasing the. where while terror is becoming stronger and they are not only. for saying the arabs the kurds the christians to join the party even if from other countries they are there are some. church church representatives in holland they are complaining that some of their people from their congregation were actually forced to join in cities

if there are. there are 350000 kurdish refugees in our country i asked them why if we are targeting kurds in this region why are they coming to our country why are we hosting these refugees in our country but they don't want to talk about this as i said unfortunately they have different problems for tens of are awake. they have ruined their demographic that last a 1000 years but has ruined this democracy and there's only only only a bunch of 3rd terrorists in this region unfortunately they engineered the demographics of this region more than 1000000 people were displaced and some arabic children were prevented to have arabic education by y p

g m p k k there were closed there is schools by what by p g m p k k in tel aviv as in how checa unfortunately there is an operation by these heroes in a zation but they were shooting them interests criminal lay all the civilians when they were standing up against operation there is what ever you can imagine as a human crime a crime against humanity they have committed crimes why p.g. and p. k.k. this isn't info this isn't something that we are making up that this is a report this is with the reports of human rights watch and united nations the there are reports on this their friends honorable friends a p k k and the likes of it we know them very well. double standard of the western countries to these are organizations we know this very well as well turkish

republics. fight against the fight against terror organizations we always. have alliance with our. always support our allies. we try to explain to them the situation but. our work afterwards to work together against y p g m p k k i were actually blocked by american broker say. we. in 90 days they were going to remove be removed from member it's been 16 months but why p.g. is still in mum bitch. in 2018 december our prime minister spoke to mr trump and there were promises given in that phone conversation however these were not delivered. by p.j.

so. american soldiers have not been. withdrawn in 14 if this somebody 1019 they. were given promises they were given positive answers for the record for the request of our prime minister creating a safe zone iran this area that has 32 kilometer depth from which to northern iraq however press but the american. american army isn't hasn't been listening to the president but. withdrawal decision following the withdrawal decision we were trying to. create a safe zone and we had 3 different meetings we have expressed

our expectations to united states and lately. our defense department an american defense department had an agreement i would like to explain this agreement as well one. americans promised us that p.k. k y p g are going to be taken the heavy arms are going to be taken away from a p k k y p j so we always say all the. all the. arms that have been given to them were going to be taken away but this agreement wasn't delivered none of these promises were delivered and fortunately. a safe zone our efforts and. deliberations with a united states regarding

a safe zone were not successful. at the end we are using ourselves the right of self defense we have expressed many times that we are going to use our right to self-defense and we always said that we are not going to tolerate terrorism on over our border. we always gave the messages that these terror organizations are actually threatening the territorial integrity of syria but they did not care. as results. to protect the security of our nation and our country and to establish safe and safe safe security and peace in our region we had to start the operation within the scope president at 9th of october turkish security forces started. at the spring peace spring operation as

a president given the order before given the order our president as i said earlier all the effort i have mentioned earlier were. not met with the results yes. they we have warrant many times and we have a president also informed mr trump before the operation after the operation and before the operation we have prepared ourselves. we have informed a stand i guarantee is we have informed the secretary of nations we have a we have wrote a letter to the head of united nations security council also the permanent members we have informed as well and nato general secretary and nato council we have informed you know that he just visited our country recently and

even before that we have given him a briefing. during the all the branch operation again even syrian regime we gave them a notification as well and in that notification and in the other letters we have explained how did we come to this point as i just mentioned earlier all these all these steps that we have taken previously and we have a list is all our rights within the international. international legal rights and we always express and emphasize that we are respectful to syria's story territorial integrity. with our diplomats outside our country and in ankara we always tried to explain the targets are an aim for our operation and we are also responding

to the black propaganda that is being carried out against turkish aphids. also the foreign minister of iran and the foreign minister of russia and all of the other countries we have met them and we have given them information and we are continuing our work as the foreign ministry. in order to express. aim of the operation so we are continuing our work with the support of our country and our nation and i would like to thank all my friends with for their work and for their efforts. and. are about like to thank also. turkey console for their support as well as. honorable friends and this baker the peace

operations aim what is it the aim is to eliminate the terrorists. around the region and to maintain the security of our borders also to save this the people who live in the region from the oppression of terror organizations also secured the territorial integrity of of syria and we also want to. make sure that the syrian refugees will be repatriated with their voluntary. voluntarily will be repatriated back to their country and we are using our right alledged to mature right in nato the 5th article and we are acting within the scope of united nations.

resolutions. resolutions. we acted with the resolutions of you and united nations and we are respectful to syria's territorial integrity in 2018 the are done a agreement is also. giving us the rights to fight against any terror threat from syrian territory and it gives us the legitimacy right previously in our other previous operations during planning of this operation as well we are only targeting. organization and every. precaution has been taking to avoid civilian casualties but we were i.g. and attacking civilians we have lost 20 civilians so far because of

700 mortal. 700 mortar shell attacks and we have many injured citizens. these continue. during our struggle against the terror organizations all these countries who are criticizing us but be silent when we lose our civilians they will be 444 kilometers long and 35 kilometers deep safe design as a result of this a we are going to move all the syrian refugees there they there is a propaganda saying that turkey is going to change the demographic of the region

but there is no such as for turkey but. key turkey is going to make show that the place is secure so that there all the other refugees who are displaced from the region will go back to their homes. we are going to continue. with the. countries who close the blinds are i of we pij. who are releasing members who are actually nationals of those countries they try not to see this but of course it's a very important situation for us. the criminals that are criminals who are prison and we are never going to allow them. to organize again but we want them we think that it's the best solution for them to

go back to their countries where they have nationality of those countries but if they don't do that if they don't accept it we will keep them in prison and even why p.g.d. we are not going to be responsible although we're not going to be responsible for all the criminals a criminal that been released by p.y.g. and p k k but we are going to work together with international community so that criminals who have nationality european nationality can go back to their countries i'm very happy that it we are we are at a very critical stage at the moment with our president and. donald trump have a common grounds however some of the congress members are actually trying to ignore our alliance and.

they have a tactical partnership with p.k. k. and they are not. stopping this we can see this and there they are i think also under right we've been listening there to turkey's foreign minister. who is briefing the turkish parliament on the ongoing operation in northern syria operation peace bring it's been dubbed by turkey which is now in its 8th day and the objective for turkey syria move kurdish forces from the border area forces that turkey considers terrorists and create a save zone that would allow for the return of syrian refugees who are currently inside turkey and the turkish foreign minister saying that turkey is using its legitimate rights and is acting within the scope of international law during this operation and that turkey is respectful of syria's territorial integrity he also

said that great precaution is being taken to avoid civilian casualties now this address by the turkish foreign minister coming just about an hour after turkey's president wants to party members in ankara also defending the turkish operation which has come under a great deal of international criticism recep tayyip erdogan saying earlier that no power can stop the turkish offensive in syria until it reaches its goals let's bring in our correspondent now in istanbul sin and who's been listening in sin him so the turkish foreign minister here briefing members of parliament i understand and we heard a very defiant tone earlier from president to one clearly turkey is intent on pushing ahead with this operation. yes exactly fully turkish officials have been stating the sosa beginning of the operation that they're determined to establish a safe zone for amendments to the iraqi border that stretches. 420 kilometers

to turkey's southern border so prisons are gone. also repeated that you will not want in turkish military will not stop and he asked of the parties who wants to come to talk to turkish officials not to old for turkey to stop this military operation basically foreign minister social little child will also said the similar things. that turkey will never let any what they call a terrorist state by its border because turkey calls the p k k and the y p g as a terrorist organization and the p.k. k. is listed as a terrorist organization by the un the us as well also presents i don't pointed out something which was different to different compared to his previous talks he said that this is beyond p k k this is beyond always so we are witnessing a change of design. some international powers are trying to redesign the middle

east and north africa the main a region that's why we are facing these kinds of things also we heard him speaking to foreign media saying that he will not be meeting with us vice president mr pence and the foreign minister mr pompeo and he said they will be meeting with their own counterparts probably added on wants to see you what the internet legation meetings are going to how they will unfold what. exactly i was going to resonate with mr trump let me just jump in there because as you say there's a lot of diplomacy going on a high level american delegation expected to try and end this offensive in northeast syria the russians also getting involved diplomatically what would it take basically what does turkey want in exchange for a change in position perhaps what could the americans all the russians offer tikki for it to change its position. fully it seems president sounds on as more poised to

robot his contacts with moscow because he. mentioned there is no problem. during his wisit to moscow which is going to happen by the end of october but as i said he said while we are coming to turkey to talk about to stop this operation shouldn't all for this he says my contact this the u.s. president and i sort out everything with them despite what we're cells whoever says whatever this is basically what they're gone face to the world ok thank you very much for that live for us in istanbul we'll of course continue to follow all of the developments on this turkish offensive in northeastern syria here on al-jazeera do stay with us coming up next it's a inside story thanks for watching. fury

in spain after cattle and separatist leaders sentenced to prison for a failed 2 years ago so is the dream of independence for catalonia now over of what are the implications for the rest of europe this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian for the good spain's highest court of sense a strong message to catalonia 2 years off the region tried to break away separatist leaders have been jailed to between 9 and 13 years for organizing an illegal secession.